In the wild, it's a different story. As ruminants, bison play a key role in maintaining an ecosystem's diversity of plant life. And plants — not to mention the soil they furnish — are the real ...

U.S. bison play a vital role in shaping grassland ecosystems by naturally maintaining plant diversity, improving soil health, and supporting wildlife. Their grazing patterns prevent overgrowth ...

How restoration of bison, and their natural migration patterns ... aims to understand the ecosystem-level impacts of reintroducing these ecosystem engineers to Montana’s grasslands.

Buffalo are a keystone species and their presence is “essential to restoring the ecosystem,” says Dwan Sherman, a founding board member and executive director of Tank Fund. Bison, which can ...

Today, the Catalina Island Conservancy manages the herd of about 150 bison, ensuring their health and protecting the island's ecosystem. The popular Bison Expedition is operated by the Catalina ...

The plan also recognizes the role of bison in maintaining healthy ecosystems, provides for increased tribal hunting opportunities outside of the park to honor treaty rights, enhances tools to provide ...

Bison play a vital role in ecosystem At the ICC, the bison will serve as ambassadors for their species, helping visitors understand the vital role they play in the ecosystem as a keystone species ...

Now — thanks to the efforts of several organizations — bison have started to return ... to the land and to our people helps restore the ecosystem it supports, from the animals to the plants ...

In a new study, Cary Institute's July Pilowsky and colleagues have reconstructed the European bison's decline over the past 21,000 years. The map shows bison abundance and range over time ...

Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have discovered that bison in Yellowstone National Park—the only group of American bison that has ...